The Unforgiving Minute

Author : Craig M. Mullaney
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781440686276

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The Unforgiving Minute by Craig M. Mullaney Pdf

“The Unforgiving Minute is one of the most compelling memoirs yet to emerge from America's 9/11 era. Craig Mullaney has given us an unusually honest, funny, accessible, and vivid account of a soldier's coming of age. This is more than a soldier's story; it is a work of literature." —Steve Coll, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars and The Bin Ladens "One of the most thoughtful and honest accounts ever written by a young Army officer confronting all the tests of life." —Bob Woodward In this surprise bestseller, West Point grad, Rhodes scholar, Airborne Ranger, and U. S. Army Captain Craig Mullaney recounts his unparalleled education and the hard lessons that only war can teach. While stationed in Afghanistan, a deadly firefight with al-Qaeda leads to the loss of one of his soldiers. Years later, after that excruciating experience, he returns to the United States to teach future officers at the Naval Academy. Written with unflinching honesty, this is an unforgettable portrait of a young soldier grappling with the weight of war while coming to terms with what it means to be a man.

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Maxims
ISBN : OXFORD:503931406

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If - by Rudyard Kipling Pdf

Author : Harry Ricketts
Publisher : Pimlico
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1916-07-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1845952367

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The Unforgiving Minute by Harry Ricketts Pdf

The stories of Rudyard Kipling are read all over the world, by people of all ages, yet no biography has fully explored the complex link between his fascinating life and his writing; untill this one. Harry Ricketts brings Kipling vividly and touchingly to life - his traumatic childhood, split between India and England (haunting the powerful Jungle Books); his youth as a reporter in India, troubled by love and politics; his entry into London literary life and his often hilarious travels in America. Ricketts explores Kiplings's imperialism and radicaism, and traces his increasing reclusiveness after his son's death in the First World War. The dramatic life is backed by subtle readings of the works , from the BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS to KIM and STALKY AND CO. With its strong narrative drive, this biography entrals and moves, while shining a strong new light on a great writer.

Author : Tim Jarvis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 186325434X

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The Unforgiving Minute by Tim Jarvis Pdf

How do you lose 20kg in just 47 days? Strap on a 250 kg sled and haul it 1600km across Antarctica. Adventurer Tim Jarvis was inspired to do just that, treading in the footsteps of some of the most eccentric and heroic explorers by undertaking unsupported journeys to the South and North Poles. He and trekking partner Peter Treseder pulled sleds packed with tents, medicines, food and fuel across these unforgiving landscapes of sculptured snow and ice at altitudes of up to 4000 metres, enduring temperatures as low as minus 45 degrees. When the grandson of adventurer Sir Douglas Mawson heard Tim planned to haul a sled across the Antarctic, he entrusted him with his grandfather's famous black balaclava. Prime Minister John Howard and British PM Tony Blair signed up as patrons of the trek and media baron Lachlan Murdoch donated $100,000 towards the $500,000 challenge. Tim and Peter reached the South Pole in December 2000, setting a world record for the fastest unsupported journey to the South Pole and then continued on in their attempt to cross the continent. On the journey Tim was forced to fill two of his own teeth (fillings shrink under those conditions), battled storms that kept the pair in their tiny, wind-beaten tent for 36 hours straight, and worked off a quarter of his body weight, due to the immense physical strain (even though he'd been pouring olive oil on everything he'd eaten- including breakfast cereal- to try to keep up his energy levels). The adventures of Tim Jarvis don't stop there. In 2002 he and Peter attemped to walk across the North Pole unsupported, making national headlines when they were airlifted out after Peter suffered severe frostbite. Tim hit the headlines again in April this year when he and a friend attempted to canoe and trek across a partly flooded section of the usually dry Lake Eyre. Tim Jarvis is an incredible Australian with an incredible story to tell about his polar expeditions. He believes life is what you make it and that testing yourself physically and mentally brings great rewards. His story is truly inspirational.

Author : Sarah Granger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1623805171

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The Unforgiving Minute by Sarah Granger Pdf

Ryan Betancourt has got it made: he's reached the top tier of the tennis world thanks to a wild-card entry to the US Open. Ryan is meeting players he has idolized for years, including his teenage crush, Josh Andrews. But he isn't ready for the politics and manipulation that come with life at the top. Josh Andrews is closeted, private, and difficult to get to know. He's been playing tennis since he could walk, won his first tournament at five, and was sent to Spain at thirteen to attend a tennis academy. Before a knee injury forced him into a year off, he was ranked the number one player in the world. Now he's back-and intent on winning. Josh and Ryan first meet at a tournament in Brisbane. Ryan excitedly greets Josh only to be ignored. Crushed, he realizes the golden boy of tennis isn't all he seems. Only in the team-building environment of training for the Davis Cup does Josh open up enough for them to grow closer. Their developing relationship is everything Ryan ever wanted, and he is blissfully happy. But inevitably they have to play against each other, and everything changes.

Author : Ron Clarke,Alan Trengrove
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Runners (Sports)
ISBN : 0987204610

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The Unforgiving Minute by Ron Clarke,Alan Trengrove Pdf

Author : Graeme Davison
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Reference
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018350525

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The Unforgiving Minute by Graeme Davison Pdf

A history of time and time-keeping in Australia.

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307804457

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Kipling: Poems by Rudyard Kipling Pdf

Beloved for his fanciful and engrossing children’s literature, controversial for his enthusiasm for British imperialism, Rudyard Kipling remains one of the most widely read writers of Victorian and modern English literature. In addition to writing more than two dozen works of fiction, including Kim and The Jungle Book, Kipling was a prolific poet, composing verse in every classical form from the epigram to the ode. Kipling’s most distinctive gift was for ballads and narrative poems in which he drew vivid characters in universal situations, articulating profound truths in plain language. Yet he was also a subtle, affecting anatomist of the human heart, and his deep feeling for the natural world was exquisitely expressed in his verse. He was shattered by World War I, in which he lost his only son, and his work darkened in later years but never lost its extraordinary vitality. All of these aspects of Kipling’s poetry are represented in this selection, which ranges from such well-known compositions as “Mandalay” and “If” to the less-familiar, emotionally powerful, and personal epigrams he wrote in response to the war.

Author : David Lipsky
Publisher : HMH
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547523750

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Absolutely American by David Lipsky Pdf

New York Times Bestseller: A “fascinating, funny and tremendously well written” chronicle of daily life at the US Military Academy (Time). In 1998, West Point made an unprecedented offer to Rolling Stone writer David Lipsky: Stay at the Academy as long as you like, go wherever you wish, talk to whomever you want, to discover why some of America’s most promising young people sacrifice so much to become cadets. Lipsky followed one cadet class into mess halls, barracks, classrooms, bars, and training exercises, from arrival through graduation. By telling their stories, he also examines the Academy as a reflection of our society: Are its principles of equality, patriotism, and honor quaint anachronisms or is it still, as Theodore Roosevelt called it, the most “absolutely American” institution? During an eventful four years in West Point’s history, Lipsky witnesses the arrival of TVs and phones in dorm rooms, the end of hazing, and innumerable other shifts in policy and practice. He uncovers previously unreported scandals and poignantly evokes the aftermath of September 11, when cadets must prepare to become officers in wartime. Lipsky also meets some extraordinary people: a former Eagle Scout who struggles with every facet of the program, from classwork to marching; a foul-mouthed party animal who hates the military and came to West Point to play football; a farm-raised kid who seems to be the perfect soldier, despite his affection for the early work of Georgia O’Keeffe; and an exquisitely turned-out female cadet who aspires to “a career in hair and nails” after the Army. The result is, in the words of David Brooks in the New York Times Book Review, “a superb description of modern military culture, and one of the most gripping accounts of university life I have read. . . . How teenagers get turned into leaders is not a simple story, but it is wonderfully told in this book.”

Author : Jerome Reyer
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780738824871

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The Unforgiving Minute by Jerome Reyer Pdf

Robert Boyd, a successful management consultant, sells his business for a large sum of money. He soon realizes that even with all the money he has received, he is not happy and does not feel fulfilled. He withdraws a million dollars from the bank and decides to leave for Europe to find himself. He leaves three letters as he leaves. One is to his wife and the others are to two mistresses. We soon find that his life is a tangled web of deception. The book flashes back to his relationship with his wife and the two other women and is interwoven with adventures involving new women and new deception on his trip to Europe. It delves deep into his thoughts and deep into a man that really has not found his way. He knows that he has trouble dealing with women and alcohol and cannot find a way to stop. The book winds toward the climax of his trip and in an epilogue, takes us from 1985 to the present.

Author : Donald Patrick Foster
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595289325

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To Fill the Unforgiving Minute by Donald Patrick Foster Pdf

The story of a man who believes in making the most of opportunities. His constantly changing world prepares him mentally to be a more fulfilled human being. By creating a brain trust, including current living people as well as lives of minds gone before, he lives the unforgiving minute. He better understands himself as being a reflection of those he meets, the books he reads and how he spends his time. This determines who he is and who he is becoming; imagining where he wants to be ten, twenty years hence. The short time on earth is his only once.

Author : Harry Ricketts
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015046479559

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The Unforgiving Minute by Harry Ricketts Pdf

Harry Ricketts brings Kipling to life - his traumatic childhood, split between England and India; his youthful years as a reporter in India, troubled by love and politics; and his first fame and return to London. Ricketts explores Kipling's passions, his imperialism, and his thirst to find a home.

Author : Joseph M. Hassett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1843517787

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Yeats Now by Joseph M. Hassett Pdf

A commentary on Yeats' life and thought

Author : Phuc Tran
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250194725

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Sigh, Gone by Phuc Tran Pdf

For anyone who has ever felt like they don't belong, Sigh, Gone shares an irreverent, funny, and moving tale of displacement and assimilation woven together with poignant themes from beloved works of classic literature. In 1975, during the fall of Saigon, Phuc Tran immigrates to America along with his family. By sheer chance they land in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a small town where the Trans struggle to assimilate into their new life. In this coming-of-age memoir told through the themes of great books such as The Metamorphosis, The Scarlet Letter, The Iliad, and more, Tran navigates the push and pull of finding and accepting himself despite the challenges of immigration, feelings of isolation, and teenage rebellion, all while attempting to meet the rigid expectations set by his immigrant parents. Appealing to fans of coming-of-age memoirs such as Fresh Off the Boat, Running with Scissors, or tales of assimilation like Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Displaced and The Refugees, Sigh, Gone explores one man’s bewildering experiences of abuse, racism, and tragedy and reveals redemption and connection in books and punk rock. Against the hairspray-and-synthesizer backdrop of the ‘80s, he finds solace and kinship in the wisdom of classic literature, and in the subculture of punk rock, he finds affirmation and echoes of his disaffection. In his journey for self-discovery Tran ultimately finds refuge and inspiration in the art that shapes—and ultimately saves—him.

Author : Glyn Hughes
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-05
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781326806446

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The Hundred Books by Glyn Hughes Pdf

There's a set of books which you're just supposed to know about, at least if you live in The West and fancy the idea of being thought 'educated'. There's the Bible, Shakespeare, James Joyce, Walter Scott and Machiavelli. Dr Jekyll, Tiny Tim, Starbuck, Socrates, Mr. Scrooge, Raskolnikov, Einstein and Enkidu. The Brontes and Boswell, Wordsworth, Newton Confucius and Don Quixote. Here they all are. 100 of the most quoted, most known, works of all time, in the original author's own words, but squashed up into nice little abridgements you can read in an hour or so. Little versions which smell and sound just like the originals. And ... with The Hundred Books it becomes possible to read the whole thing as a single narrative, to discover a Pisgah View of the written history of the great grand thing of how We got where We are now, in way that's just impossible for ordinary mortals. Read the lot, you'll love it, and you'll never, ever, be bored in an airport again.